Saturday, March 12, 2005

Iam amazed reading the recent recruitment figures of the Indian IT companies! A few snippets..

Infosys Technologies has been hiring about 50 people a working day for the last nine months Wipro adds three employees to its staff every working hour Satyam will see an addition of 30,000 to the present 20,000 in the next few yearsTCS’S headcount stands at 43,681 people with over 6,200 added in last two quarters.

FYI : Amazed because, after starting operations more than 15 20 years ago, we(TI India) are still at a total employee strength of around 1300. That number is approximately what Infosys or Wipro adds in a month. :)

Raj, I completely understand that services mindset is totally different from a product dev mindset. But its the rate of growth really surprised me. I was wondering how their HR would be coping with such a rapid burst of new employees!